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Ambassador P.S. Raghavan arrived in Dublin on December 9, 2007
and presented his credentials to President Mary McAleese on December 11.
Born in 1955,
he took degrees in Physics [St Stephen’s College, Delhi] and Electronics & Communications
Engineering [Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore] before joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1979.
Between 1979 and 1994, he held diplomatic positions in the Indian Missions in Moscow,
Warsaw and London, interspersed with tenures in the Ministry of External Affairs.
In 1994, he was appointed Consul General of India in Ho Chi Minh City; in 1997,
Deputy High Commissioner in the Indian High Commission in Pretoria.
From 2000 to 2004, Ambassador Raghavan served as Joint Secretary (dealing with Foreign Affairs,
Defence and National Security matters) in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi.
He was Ambassador of India to Czech Republic from 2004 to 2007.
Ambassador Raghavan is married; his wife, Barbara Raghavan, and their two sons,
Sirish and Anish also reside in Dublin. His interests include reading and a variety of sports,
which he follows with keen interest, participating in some of them.
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